00:09Good evening, I'm Ben Mankiewicz.
00:11You're watching TCM, where swindling is in the air tonight.
00:14Mostly, it's on your screen.
00:16We're in the middle of another slate of movies exploring the art of the con.
00:20We're showcasing these movies Friday nights in June.
00:23We let off the evening with the grandfather of grifting,
00:26Paul Newman and Robert Redford and George Roy Hill's The Sting from 1973.
00:31Up next, a continental con with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole.
00:35It's from 20th Century Fox in 1966, how to steal a million.
00:39Hepburn is the daughter of a master art forger whose skill-copying masterpieces is tested
00:45after he loans a counterfeit statue to a Parisian museum.
00:49To save her dad from prison, Hepburn enlists the help of a sophisticated cat burglar.
00:55That's Peter O'Toole.
00:56Screenwriter Harry Kernitz adapted the script from a 1962 George Bradshaw story.
01:01This became Kernitz's final studio project before his death two years later.
01:07Director William Wyler knew the plot here was fairly ridiculous.
01:12He also knew he had assembled a strong creative team,
01:16artists capable of charming the audience into overlooking the details,
01:21which pretty much describes how cons work.
01:24Look over here at this pretty bright thing while I rob you blind over here.
01:31William Wyler told his editor, Robert Swink,
01:34We may not have the best script in the world, but we're going first class.
01:38Wyler did so by reuniting with Audrey Hepburn for the third time.
01:42In 1953, he directed her in her stunning Oscar-winning American film debut, Roman Holiday.
01:48Eight years later, they made the 1961 drama The Children's Hour.
01:52For the leading man, Wyler chose Peter O'Toole, an international star,
01:57after his role in Lawrence of Arabia four years prior.
02:00O'Toole and Hepburn became fast friends who enjoyed making each other laugh on set,
02:05which of course added to their on-screen chemistry.
02:08Wyler pushed Fox to let him shoot on location in Paris.
02:12Further stylish sheen came from notable fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy.
02:18His ongoing partnership with Hepburn had persisted since 1954 during the production of Sabrina.
02:24The whole cast is stellar, including Hugh Griffith as Hepburn's dad,
02:28plus Eli Wallach, Charles Boyer, and Marcel Dalio,
02:3224 years after playing the croupier in Casablanca.
02:35From 1966, with a score by John, billed as Johnny Williams.
02:41Here's How to Steal a Million.
